Rain Delays

Pop Levi - Never Never Love

Pretty catchy and awesome song from British electronic musician Pop Levi. It is highly recommended.

And in honor of rain delays here is the rain filled video for "Heaven" by the Psychedelic Furs.

Extended Play

Joseph Arthur (pictured above) is releasing four EPs before he releases his full length album.I have only heard the third EP Vagabond Skies so I cannot speak about the whole endeavor, but I would like to discuss EPs. EP is short for Extended Play and wikipedia does a better job of explaing all that stuff than I can. Basically longer than a single, but shorter than a LP. When looking at the back catalog a band's EPs are usually not must hears, but they are great for getting a feel for a new artist. Tokyo Police Club's A Lesson in Crime and Voxtrot's Raised By Wolves are the examples that come to mind for me. As somebody who posts mp3s online it is obvious that individual songs are what grabs people's attention a lot of the time. I also get bored pretty easily sometimes so there is that.

Joseph Arthur - Pretty Good Company

WW 100:The Hits

Capgun Coup - My Tears Cure Cancer (the first song)
Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs (the second song)
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe

How many five year olds can you take?

Throw Me The Statue - About to Walk
Bishop Allen - Click Click Click
Jaymay - Blue Skies
Hallelujah the Hills - Hallelujah the Hills
What Made Milwaukee Famous - Sultan

This video freaked a couple people out. So did this site. I launched another blog.

Tokyo Police Club - Juno
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - I Think I Wanna Die
I Love Math - Josephine Street
From Bubblegum to Sky - Even the Sunbeams

I thought I told you that we won't stop (have to love those suits)

The Post Before 100

Not quite 100 yet. I may have a typing accident later today or something. I'm going to have to think of some "best of" type thing for 100. Thanks to all you loyal readers. It is probably a little presumptive to believe there are loyal readers. Well anyway here is the best song to feature the number 99....ever.

Songs About Cities

Here are two catchy songs that have something in common. So it is already a great blog post without my terrific insight. Belated happy birthday to Godzilla. Big home run last night. Anyway the Vampire Weekend show in Central Park is tomorrow and the Incredible Hulk is out today. The picture is of Wolf Parade whose At Mt. Zoomer album is out on Tuesday. Plus isn't it a cool picture?
Uglysuit - Chicago
Wolf Parade - Language City

Orange Juice

Heres a video from a long time ago for the song "Rip it Up" by Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice. I read somewhere that Franz Ferdinand got their style from them and that definitely appears to be true. Anyway I like this song and the band a lot so check it out.

Humpback Wednesday (Thursday) #12

What it lacks in being on time it makes up for in awesome songs.

The best of the best
Bound Stems - Happens To Us All Otherwise
Wire - One of Us
Bell - Echinacea
Happy Anarchy - Is That Right?
Jaguar Love - Bats Over The Pacific Ocean
Robert Pollard (of GBV fame) - Gratification to Concrete
The Ms - Don't Be Late
Computer vs. Banjo - Give Up On Ghosts
From Bubblegum to Sky - I Always Fall Apart and Even the Sunbeams

Hymns and Insults

Saw this band Hymns open for What Made Milwaukee Famous. Of course WMMF were great (posted about them couple weeks ago), but Hymns sounded good as well. They are more folky than most indie rock bands. I would compare their sound to the legendary (not completely serious) MMJ. That may be a stretch, but it is what I thought of listening to them. So go check out their myspace and see if you like it.

In unrelated news parents are angry at Nintendo because Wii Fit said their healthy child is overweight. I think that is awesome in so many ways.


Hymns - I Can't Be What You Want

loudQUIETloud

So I recently saw the documentary loudQUIETloud about the Pixies' 2004 reunion tour. It was really interesting. Documentaries like loudQUIETloud that give insight to band relationships are really worth checking out. I am a big Pixies fan which of course enhanced the film, but I also thought that Some Kind of Monster, a documentary about Metallica (a band I am not a fan of) making an album, was really good. Here is the trailer for loudQUIETloud also listen to Doolittle that album rocks.